“The first animal to be domesticated were hens perhaps were used for sport; cockfighting was instrumental in bringing about the selection of these birds for larger size. Cocks later acquired religious significance. In Zoroastrianism the cock was associated with protection of good against evil and was a symbol of light. In ancient Greece it was also an object of sacrifice to gods. It is probable that egg production of the first domesticated hens was no more than five to ten eggs a year; high egg yield and improved meat qualities of hens developed at later stages of domestication. “
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Aquariums and Zoos are products of Animal domestication your taking the animal out of its original home and putting it into a make believe area made by humans to trick the animal into thinking that its their home. This causing animal to act out in ways they wouldn’t in their own environment. ‘’Killer whales, or orcas, are members of the dolphin family. They are also the largest animals held in captivity. In the wild, orcas stay with their mothers for life. Family groups, or “pods,” consist of a mother, her adult sons and daughters, and her daughters’ offspring. Members of the pod communicate in a “dialect” specific to that pod. Dolphins swim together in family pods or tribes of hundreds.’’ In the wild, orcas and dolphins swim up to 100 miles per day. But captured dolphins are confined to tanks that may be only 24 feet long, 24 feet wide, and 6 feet deep. They navigate by echolocation—bouncing sonar waves off other objects to determine their shape, density, distance, and location—but in tanks, the reverberations from their own sonar bounce off the walls, driving some dolphins insane. Jacques Cousteau said that life for a captive dolphin “leads to a confusion of the entire sensory apparatus, which in turn causes in such a sensitive creature a derangement of mental balance and behavior.” These tanks have unknown chemicals in them that can interfere with the animals. When these animals then act out people are blaming the animals when we should be blaming places that people are taking their children to see these animals being forced to perform for food. “A tank at the North Carolina Zoological Park didn’t provide enough shade, causing a sea lion’s eyes to develop blisters and rupture. Oklahoma City Zoo closed its dolphin exhibit after four dolphins died within two years from bacterial infections. Sea lions at Hershey Park won’t come out of their pen because they fear the noise made by the nearby rollercoasters.”
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-Florence Wiessner
Citations Ken LeVasseur, “Dolphins Head to New Prison Camp,” Hololulu Star-Bulletin 15 Sep. 2000.
Virginia McKenna, Into the Blue (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992).
Kestin, “Sickness and Death Can Plague Marine Mammals at Parks.”
Aquariums and Zoos are products of Animal domestication your taking the animal out of its original home and putting it into a make believe area made by humans to trick the animal into thinking that its their home. This causing animal to act out in ways they wouldn’t in their own environment. ‘’Killer whales, or orcas, are members of the dolphin family. They are also the largest animals held in captivity. In the wild, orcas stay with their mothers for life. Family groups, or “pods,” consist of a mother, her adult sons and daughters, and her daughters’ offspring. Members of the pod communicate in a “dialect” specific to that pod. Dolphins swim together in family pods or tribes of hundreds.’’ In the wild, orcas and dolphins swim up to 100 miles per day. But captured dolphins are confined to tanks that may be only 24 feet long, 24 feet wide, and 6 feet deep. They navigate by echolocation—bouncing sonar waves off other objects to determine their shape, density, distance, and location—but in tanks, the reverberations from their own sonar bounce off the walls, driving some dolphins insane. Jacques Cousteau said that life for a captive dolphin “leads to a confusion of the entire sensory apparatus, which in turn causes in such a sensitive creature a derangement of mental balance and behavior.”
These tanks have unknown chemicals in them that can interfere with the animals. When these animals then act out people are blaming the animals when we should be blaming places that people are taking their children to see these animals being forced to perform for food. “A tank at the North Carolina Zoological Park didn’t provide enough shade, causing a sea lion’s eyes to develop blisters and rupture. Oklahoma City Zoo closed its dolphin exhibit after four dolphins died within two years from bacterial infections. Sea lions at Hershey Park won’t come out of their pen because they fear the noise made by the nearby rollercoasters.”
-Florence Wiessner
Citations
Ken LeVasseur, “Dolphins Head to New Prison Camp,” Hololulu Star-Bulletin 15 Sep. 2000.
Virginia McKenna, Into the Blue (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992).
Kestin, “Sickness and Death Can Plague Marine Mammals at Parks.”
Encyclopædia Britannica. (1978). Domestication. Retrieved 11 4, 2013, from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/168592/domestication
Animals held in Captivity. (n.d.). Retrieved 11 4, 2013, from http://www.peta.org